Guild Wars 2

I believe it was the Forgotten vs the Margonites.

We can be Snake people!

It’s not the same fight from GW1. This one happens over 1000 years prior to that game.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Timeline

What really enticed me about that battle, was that you were never given all the information about it in a single exposition. You got little bits here and there during the nightfall campaign. And you got more pieces of the puzzle if you ventured off from the main story and explored side quests and went into nooks and crannies to speak to npcs. Then, as you pieced it together(while playing nightfall), you started to see how Abbadon’s story ties into the events you experienced in Prophecies and Factions, and that realization was pretty cool.

So to me the story is not just the plot, but how I experienced it as a player. I think that is what entices a lot of GW1 veterans.

I like Evon!

Evon’s content, Fall of Abbadon, sounds like it is going to be much more work from a production standpoint.

Thaumanova already has a map and the enemies can just be current GW2 enemies reused. Aaatxes, Shadowfiends… stuff just teleported from around GW2 would suffice.

For Abbadon, Anet will have to create an interpretation of the Crystal Sea. They will probably need an interpretation of the Margonite army both pre and post-transformation, since they both existed during that time. They will also need a GW2 version of the Forgotten since that race was the main force on the side of the Gods during that battle. Finally they will also need to implement GW2 versions of the God avatars, of which only Balthazaar has been made so far.

Don’t get me wrong, I want Evon to win, even though I like Kiel more as a character. And I care more about cheap WP than keys. But I can’t pass up the opportunity to see an epic an storied moment in GW lore play out.

My concern is the staggering difference in developer assets that Evon’s project would take in comparison to Kiel’s. If Kiel’s project was something equally epic, such as the Vizier’s sinking of Orr, which would need an not-destroyed Orr and not-undead Orrians, then that option would be somewhat more equal.

So my question is: Will Anet be able to pull through and include everything that should be there, or will we just see a pale imitation of what was described, should Evon win?

Right on. Epic pre-GW1 lore beats yet-another-asuran-project-gone-wrong any day!

We just unlocked Guild Puzzles and will be doing our first one next Saturday. Come join us!

You might want to get a new HD, before it suddenly fails without warning. Happened to me.

This coming Tuesday, the Bazaar of the Four Winds update will be released. See you in Zephyr Sanctum.

I just finished the Charr Undead Detection mission(26) and received level 24 gear.

I have always wondered if this was intentional. Sometimes you get gear appropriate to the level of the mission, other times not. I wonder if at some point Anet re-shuffled the levels of the missions during production but forgot to adjust the loot rewards as an oversight. Sometimes, the levels of the creatures are two levels below as well, making the mission extremely easy.

I would be nice if they go through all the missions at some point for a polish run.

Also you can get really cheap level 8 gear from the auction house. Much cheaper than the white gear sold by the merchant, which is lower stats. Try grabbing a full set. Don’t forget the weapons.

Afterwards, if you are still having trouble, concisely describe exactly where you were and what you fighting. And, if possible, what about those enemies or encounters made them hard.

Anet has done a lot of re-balancing post release. They do listen if you give constructive feedback.

I mean the last barrage phase is a full two minutes by itself. lolwut?

I think a good boss fight should be about ~5 minutes, maybe 7.

10 is pushing it a bit.

15 ugh.

Grounder.7381:

rapier and canons are the all new soon to be weapon types then..

I want to see the Charrzooka carried like it was in the original concept art now that they have an appropriate animation. They were just using the rifle animations before.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/50032/gw2-charr-cannon.jpg

Do it Anet.

Another thing to note is that those rapier animations are quite slow. I think a player would find them sluggish.

They look cool though. Nice job to whoever made them.

The only thing that I think might be a challenge is that each individual will be responsible for their own dodging, which seems a little scary. I’ll pitch the idea though, thanks for sharing.

If one person dies, do the remaining cannon shots focus on the rest, or do less rounds get fired overall?

CuRtoKy.8576:

• The strategy that I use is for your team to spread out. Ideally, each person should occupy one of the four corners of the arena while the 5th person stays in the middle. The four individuals will move around in their corner to find a safe spot and if they cannot find a safe spot then they will move a little bit towards the center (diagonally). The 5th person in the middle will try to find a safe spot and if they do not have one they will move up or down (forward or backward from the center).
  • Reasoning: This spreads out the AoE since the cannons target the players and if everyone is grouped up then there is a higher chance that someone will take a lot of damage or die from the cannon barrage. Also, if everyone moves to the center then every other area (the corner areas) will be safe spots. So at most the strategy only puts 1-2 people at risk of death.

This part in particular is interesting as we were using the strategy of running around in a circle in one group, which eventually worked for us on the 5th try.

I was thinking there might be a better way.

Have you tried the running-around-in-a-circle method? If so, how would you compare the difficulty compared to your method in regards to individual skill needed?

This happened again to another guild group of ours. Looks like today’s update did not fix it.

Come join us for the new Sky Pirates of Tyria update!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/june-25-2013/

We should be running the dungeon pretty regularly once Anet fixes the scripting bug.

Someone guildies had her bug out right after the jumping portion.

Also the ones who spawn near Trembling in Snowden are 3 levels higher than they should be. Not as bad as Astorra, but still an oversite.

The Aetherblades who spawn near Astorra in Caledon are level 20 but you will be downscaled to level 16. This makes talking to her a risky proposition.

GW2 doesn’t do well with Bulldozer chips. Read around. I don’t think it’s AMD’s fault though. It does fine with other games.

For a better looking version of this recruitment post, go to the following link. :)
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/75908-liar-looking-for-friendly-gamers-7-years-running/

[Liar] was originally a GW1 guild with a 7 year history and we are now expanding our roster for GW2 on the Yak’s Bend Server. We are looking for friendly, teamwork-oriented gamers, ages 17 and up.

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MISSION STATEMENT

[Liar] seeks to create a friendly, social environment where people can play together and enjoy anything cooperative gaming has to offer, especially in Guild Wars 2. We seek active, friendly people interested in meeting and playing with others rather than recruiting based on experience or hours played. We recruit from all stages of gaming experience including people playing through the game for the first time to those seeking advanced content. Whether you are new to the game, a gaming veteran, or returning from a break, you’ll find a helpful guild at [Liar] dedicated to improving your social gaming experience.

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HOW TO JOIN

Visit our website at http://liarscheatsandthieves.org/ and click the “Apply Here!” button on the left and fill out the application.

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GUILD PICS!

Liars killing Zhaitan in the first week of release, just 6 hours after the world first.
http://i.imgur.com/r5QDh.jpg

More to come.

I guess if people like to farm, then have at it.

Me? I did the raptor cave in GW1. Actually, I’m so old school that I did the Troll cave too.

“WTS TROLL TUSKS!”

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Never again.

leungclj.4915:

I would like to see tPVP MM system like this:

1+1+1+1+1 vs 1+1+1+1+1;
2+1+1+1 vs 2+1+1+1;
2+2+1 vs 2+2+1;
3+1+1 vs 3+1+1;
3+2 vs 3+2;
4+1 vs 4+1;
5v5.

Yes, it should always try to do this first. But with a small population that can lead to really long wait times. So there should be a little leeway. For example, after 1 minute, if it can’t find a perfect match, it would try the next closest match.

I have actually experienced much fewer leavers and afkers in GW2 than I did in my first ~10-15 levels of LoL, which took about that long before I was getting consistent 5v5s. I guess LoL’s system weeds them out but it sure takes a while. YMMV

It slightly surprises me that GW2 does so well because I don’t think there is any kind of system like that on here. If not, there should be.

From these posts, I guess others are having a worse experience. I have had only a few 4v5s and I’ve played about 100 tourney games.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Hello Truefaith,

At this current point in time none of our rune sets with buff durations reflect changes on utility skill tool tips. They still however should be reflecting the proper duration of boons you aquire on your buff bar. Hope this clears the air on this functionality at this current time.

Hey Tyler, while we have your attention on this rune, check out this post. Rune of Rage also doesn’t give the +crit damage properly either.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Superior-Rune-of-Rage-BUG/first#post1694570

Any chance of doing a bug pass on Runes soon, now that you guys have entered a slower development cycle? The are several valuable Runes that do not work as advertised

Join us for the Southsun finale June 5th! We have also been running the Null instance lately.

Ralathar.7236:

Can you add Stability to the protection while you are at it? Otherwise people will just constantly be pulled off of it by mesmers.

Really. Burning oil is currently the biggest waste of supply in WvW. Last night, while defending a keep, we were 2 supply short of building a ballista and saving the wall from a line of cats. I looked over at a half build pot of oil and cried tears of lament as we went down like the Alamo.

So there are a lot of complaints/critiques about the latest update, but I feel this one is important enough to warrant it’s own discussion.

The last part of the fight is a dps race, so it can be very hard for parties that have people with conditions. This is really unfair to classes that are very condition based or have hybrid builds.

I actually wonder if this is a bug because at the very start of the fight, he does get affected by conditions. Once his shield goes up, they no longer affect him which makes perfect sense. After you bring his shield down, you would expect conditions to affect him again. However, that is not the case. He will be immune, with or without his shield, from that point forward. If this was intentional, why not just have him immune from the start?

Is this a bug or intentional? If intentional, don’t you feel this is unfair to players who are heavy on conditions?

Some really cool ideas here.Thanks for sharing.

A couple guildies and I were having this issue. Most of of Canach and Kiel’s speech bubbles had no voice over at the end of the dungeon. A few did play, randomly interspersed among those that were silent. Another guildie got no VO’s at all. For another guildie, it was fine.

I sometimes have this problem where one or two lines of VO won’t play in random places but, in this instance, it was particularly bad. I don’t hear about it that often so I am not sure if it is that common or even a known bug.

Anyone else have this problem?

So our guild was doing guild missions tonight and we got crab scuttle. I ran through the entire course up to the second to last flag, only to find that the finish line has been overridden by the new base that was added with the Southsun update. Without the final checkpoint, it is impossible to complete this guild rush.

Because there is no way to cancel a rush, that I know of, we were unable to roll another one for 5 hours and just had to skip doing a rush tonight.

The latest installment of Flame and Frost has arrived and we are digging in to the new Dungeon! Guild Missions continue on Weekends.

Vlad Morbius.1759:

I for one don’t mind your input but I am not a fan of your condescending attitude and ridicule towards anyone who is not a student of economics,

He’s an economist. What do you expect? :V

I hope John’s bosses never put the kabosh on him.

This POI is impossible to get to without glitching. Any chance of moving it slightly forward so that players can walk into in normally?

We are doing another recruitment drive. We now do guild missions on weekends. Currently we have been diving in to some of the new pve content: Super Adventure Box and Living Story

Also, as of late, we have been doing fractals, WvW and some sPvP. If you are interested in any of these activities, or just anything GW2, check us out!

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

This is actually just not true. Lots of guilds have been successfully taking this one down. It’s just a tad too difficult, so I’ll be adjusting it slightly.

This one is pretty much a guaranteed fail for us. I think we got him twice ever out of I don’t know how many times.

Josh Foreman.8250:

I honestly don’t know why this is happening specifically in SAB.

I think the most offending areas are probably the jump pads and then the raft sequence. A LOT of rapid and substantial point-of-view changes going on there, comparative to regular GW2 play. Another problem could be certain areas that are really claustrophobic and thus cause rapid camera spasms.

When the eye wants to focus on a point, but it can’t because that point keeps moving around due to constant frame shift, that is what causes motion sickness. Have you ever heard of people who experience motion sickness while reading in a car? It is the same thing. They are trying focus on the text while the vibrations of the vehicle shifts their head around, slightly but rapidly and constantly.

I really don’t think color has anything to do with it.

My suggestions.

1. When crafting future levels, try to build them such that the camera has room to operate. Don’t make anything too tight or narrow.

2. Slow down the upward acceleration of jump pads.

3. If you have anything like the raft, also slow it down.

I bet if you research motion sickness enough, you can find resources out there that will provide guidelines for building content to avoid it.

What kind of FPS are you getting? Low FPS can make you sick.

Fyrebrand.4859:

3) http://www.beedogs.com/

39 pages of beedogs

Funny you bring that up because the reason 255 was an important number in Zelda is actually the same reason 250 is an important number in GW2. They just chopped off the last 5 for simplicity’s sake.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4986486/why-does-a-byte-only-have-0-to-255

Some things haven’t changed after all these years.

Yeah that room was a callback to the SAW video game I guess.

I thought the robotic shark in the lava was a pretty nice touch.

Sotzzs is pretty much a guaranteed fail if we get him. We only ever found him the first time. Never again.

monkeyboy.5324:

fury oriented build
20/15/15/0/20

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQRAnZ3ejcOxwJPGPMRCA8BrMKKKo7BqUKa7OA;TwAg0KnoUyokQJrSOlkKtyYMyGhJEA

FYI – Rune of Rage’s (6) does not work.

Vahkris.6847:

IIRC, the dialogue cutscenes used in the Personal Story are actually a higher quality model than the ones used during normal play, so they have the much more complex facial structure to handle the facial expressions and lip-syncing during talking. Could be wrong, but that’s likely why.

I don’t think so. As an experiment, try some of the emotes from the link in game and look at your character’s face.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Emote

You’ll see that your character can do very detailed and charming expressions. If I had to guess, and I am no expert, I would say the facial expressions for those emotes are baked into the animations, the same goes for the dialogue sequences. But to get that level of quality for every single instance of spoken dialogue in the game, they would have to go through and make specific animations for every single one. Meaning a lot of extra work and additional files to the .DAT. Literally thousands.

Or they could create a new dynamic system that can do it real-time, which is what the new lip-flap system is probably a primitive form of. But creating such a thing would be something new that doesn’t exist in any game I know of.

The first option is probably the more realistic one, but I am sure it is not trivial.

PS – Third option could be do what I mentioned in the first one, but only for cutscenes, and keep the lip-flap system for dynamic events. That would be less of an undertaking.

I like where they are going with this as well. My only criticism is that the facial expressions and lip-syncing in the new cutscenes are not as good as the dialogue sequences. Is it possible to improve on these?

I know GW2 is capable of doing really good facial expressions. The best examples are actually in the emotes, those are even better than the dialogue sequences.

But perhaps there are technical or resource limitations to achieving that level of quality consistently? I think overcoming them would be worthwhile.

So it looks like this survived last month’s bug fixes as well, although I see you guys have started to fix some of the other broken runes. Any chance of acknowledgement that this bug is at least on record?

Sylosis.7125:

Lucky.9421:

Rune of rage does not give the extra 5% crit damage while under the effects of fury.

I’m assuming you pressed ‘h’ and noted the equipment tab crit dmg stat… then applied fury.

That and I also confirmed that it is not working with a steady weapon in the mists.

This thread is waaaay more positive then the other ones. I’m enjoying it.

Pretty sure everything has less health in AC now. If you don’t wipe it should go faster now. Just saying…

I still think it is too hard for level 35s, though it always was.